I have a late 2007 black MacBook with a 2.2GHz Core 2 processor and 4 GB RAM running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) now. Should I install Lion?

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Not really. The main benefit from Mavericks is bigger battery life (around 10%). However, you can have some apps not working (usually apps which you compiled by yourself, i.e., MacPorts if you have installed). If your planning buying a SSD, it would be worth upgrading to Mavericks through a clean SL install + combined upgrade to 10.6.8 + upgrading to Mavericks).

2. Would it perform Ok on my MacBook or should I just upgrade to Snow Leopard and forget Mavericks?

Thank in advance.

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I gave up on waiting for Hakerwayne to develop MacPostFactor, which would install Mountain Lion and Mavericks on "unsupported" Macs. So, I decided to play around with the files myself and have managed to install it on my MacBook 2,1 (Mid-2007 White) with 4GB of RAM and GMA 950 integrated graphics. I would be more than happy to tell you how to do this if you would like.

I agree that this is not as good as SL or Lion; however, my intention with this is just to let those who are desperate to run Mavericks on their Mac be able to. I don't think that this should be somebody's primary OS, but if anyone wanted to try it out, they can now. I thought that this could be a way to "drive by" until Hackerwaye releases MacPostFactor with (hopefully) GMA 950 support for Mavericks.

I followed your instructions, USB refuses to boot into mavericks when restarting macbook, is there anything else I've missed, included the boot.efi in the relevant locations, added my board id to the mpkg files, so I don't know where else i've gone wrong unless my macbook is rally that old.

I have a macbook 2,1 early 2006 running mountain lion using the ML PostFactor at the moment... any help is appreciated

I followed your instructions, USB refuses to boot into mavericks when restarting macbook, is there anything else I've missed, included the boot.efi in the relevant locations, added my board id to the mpkg files, so I don't know where else i've gone wrong unless my macbook is rally that old.

I have a macbook 2,1 early 2006 running mountain lion using the ML PostFactor at the moment... any help is appreciated

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1. What brand of flash drive are you using?
2. Did you hold alt when booting up the macbook and then choose the flash drive?
3. Tell me what options you have when holding alt at the startup and what external devices you have plugged into your MacBook.
4. What happens when you try to boot from the USB drive?
Thank you

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